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Mac Mail: How to add addresses from Mail to your Address Book in Bulk

January 30, 2012 Read the full article →

Question I have “mail” and “contacts” on my mac. I know there are email addresses that my Mail program recognizes and will auto populate when I begin typing them that are not in my contacts. I desire to get those addresses in my contacts file or download them in some way so I can add [...]

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What is the difference between Fetch and Push?

October 17, 2011 Read the full article →

Question I am now syncing my phone and computers so that my calendars, emails will all have the same information. But, when I go to my settings I see options for “Fetch” and “Push”. What is the difference? Which one do I want to use? Answer Fetch and Push are items that tell your devices [...]

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The Don’ts and REALLY Don’ts of Mailing Lists and Email Marketing

June 20, 2011 Read the full article →

Building an email list takes time and care. You collect emails from clients, your own web site, sales reps, contests, and interested emailers. You send your offerings, deleting bounce backs and abandoned addresses, removing the opt-outs, watching the inbox placements and the click through rates, pruning here and adding there, tailoring and growing a list [...]

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Create multiple Vcards from Address Book at Once

June 6, 2011 Read the full article →

Question Is there a way to create multiple and separate vCards from my Address Book on my Mac? I know I can grab a group or “All Contacts” onto the desktop and it will make a single vCard with all of the contacts inside of it. But, what if I wanted to make a separate [...]

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Gmail is saving multiple drafts. How to stop it.

May 16, 2011 Read the full article →

Question Why does my Mail program save a draft of every email I begin to write and in some cases save several drafts as I write the email? Answer Disable storing drafts on the server by going to the Mail.app’s Account Preferences –> [choose the account you are working with] –> Mailbox Behaviors. Gmail will [...]

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I want a new email address

January 10, 2011 Read the full article →

Question I would like to change my e-mail address,  do you have a suggestion on how I do this? Answer The first thing you need to do is decide if you like your domain name or want to change it. Keeping Your Domain Name If your email is nancywidgets@comcast.net and you want to change it [...]

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Ask Lena: Junk Mail on my Mac?

December 13, 2010 Read the full article →

Question A question – is there a way to set up Mail so that the stuff marked as junk go somewhere other than the main mailbox? With Entourage the junk went directly into the Junk folder but on my mail it shows up – albeit a different color and says this is junk- but I’d [...]

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Ask Lena: My mailbox is getting full

November 15, 2010 Read the full article →

Question My Outlook Express seems to work okay, but my mailbox is getting full on the server and I can’t get my mail. I heard there was a way to fix this. Do you know how? Answer Pretty much all servers have a limit on their mailbox. If they didn’t, it would get  filled up [...]